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THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch). THE ST. LEONARD'S WILL CASE.—What Plaintiff asks .or The deed for the will. What Defendant insists on The will for the deed. "THROW HIJI OVER !"—Dizzy "Very sorry, my dear Hunt, to do anything disagreeable, but if you have such a thing as a Boyton dress IiiLi.d)7 To A HOST OF CORRESPONDENTS.—You a-.e all wrong. The Khedive's act in selling to England his shares in the Canal is one of self-preservation—in fact, the reverse of Suez-aidat. FASHIONABLE COMPLAINT.—Young Groom s0 your gov'nor's out again Been amiss, I heard."—Old Groom Well, the doctor said as there wasn't much the matter, but lie migbt call it a 'bronkital affectation.' If it were you or me, Jim, I daresay we should oall it a cold." NICOTIANA.—Edith I'm astonished, Arthur, that you can sit here this lovely afternoon, doing nothing but that, horrid amokin- ?"-Artli tir "If you'd been working hard all morning, you'd be glad to sit quiet, too."—Edith And what have you been doing, pray ?"—Arthur "Why. I've been walking all round the fields, picking up prow's feathers to cle,.tu my pipe with IRISH POULTRY.—In the extraordinary account of the proceedings of the O'Connell Centenary Committee, it is narrated that Mr. A. M. Sullivan called upon his friend* to leave the room, and let them make ducks and drakes'' of the surplus if they liked. Ducks and drak«« of their cash They would make, we're afraid, For great geese of themselves They already had made. (From Fun.) A SOLEMN WARNING. Mr. Stanley has discovered a freat African fiiend in King Mtesa. Mrs. Cluppins thinks 4he largest circulators had better look out, or they'll fiud ir new ally to be a liar and more of a (hem !) teaser than >hey HOIV seem to suspect. WKITE AND WRONG. Jones (newly married, who has as' e,l all old friend to come and see him) My dear, I'm Rfraid Brown doesn't know my address." — Wife (one of Erin's daughters) Ocli, never mind, my darlint sure be 11 write and say so if he dofsn't." DOWN NYITH It is seriously proposed t,,at wo should purchase Turkey's splendid fleet of ironclads and Jnan them with English sailors and officers. This is bad. that we are solemnly engaged to protect the degr' t''e Pr0l)0S £ d to sink its navy ia barefaced to a (From Judy.) H"AV JJITEBAST PASTIME.—Latest news The cook of • u i- l>orl)0ise having dropped a saucepan ovciboird, it f Sieved that the First Lord of the Admiralty will be immediately superseded.—Vide Liberal papers, passim. AN ESSAY ON GIRL. • very nice ? Everybody who has not the raisfor" une to be girl will allow this. Nice girl will allow it alsoi as tar as it itself is concerned. Strange girl is objection- able in the eyes of girl generally. 1 owder intprovbu giri sometimes, but it seldom finds this out until it is suggested to it by One of Experience. Healthy girl costs its parents less money for doctor's b'.lls, but persons who write romantic tales for circulating librarits choose unhealthy and pasty-faced girl to write about -the swooning kind preferred. Lately I bought sixpennyworth of penny illustrated journals, and I found therein ten pictures illustrative of girl in a swooning state. I hope it was all real, or else there ought to have been a lot of smacking all round. If I were not boy, I think I should like to be girl. It's but fiui to beho, wium tlieis'* ulentr of ^ivl about.

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. At no season within our recollection, say the Follet, havo toilettes been so perfectly suiUbla to weather and the par- poses for which they are intended as they are at the present moment. Colour, material, abapestyle of trimming-every- thing suggests comfort and warmUi. navy blue, bottle green, some rich browns, viDlet, and black are much worn in woollen mateiials.with patterns of stripes, checks, or small figures of lighter shade or contrasting colour in. silk. The rough and course-looking fabrics are still m vogue for morning wear out of doors, but for indoors with a more highly finished surface are preferred. There are some charming soft and warm woollens, damasked with silk; the figures dark, thrown up on a light ground, are very effective. Others, with broken checks, stripes, tiny curls, and points of bright colour, are much employed as over-dresses, wom with under- skirts of plain colour. Plain cloths and cachemires are also much worn; these are generally ornamented by the broad braids, with tiny threads of silver or iron, now Ie fashionable. Velvets and velveteens are worn in great pi-ofiision the latter are now employed for toilettes for which, at one time, the most expensive silk velvet would have been considered necessary. The damask velvets make splendid trains and long flowing tunics. W. have seen two lstely specially deserving of notice; one emerald green velvet arabesques on a light green Bilk ground the other turquoise blue velvet on white satin. The former was unmade, the latter, a manteau de cour, with round apron front, trimmed all round with a four- inch wide point lace laid on blue velvet. Th* o.- .l1.I velvet pattern was outlined with nne lIuver tureau. Skirts with pouffs cut in them have made their ^ap- pearance after a temporary abandonment. The bade of the skirt is no longer supported by a sudden straight line from the waist, as if the skirt were resting on a. shelf. The curve is gradual from the waist and continued to the train. Whatever the skirts and petti- coats may be, there is always some under frame called tournure or crinolette, according to taste, but at all events of sufficient firmness to keep the skirts away from the wearer. These under-jupons are much gored en butts down the centre of the back steels are run in vertically, and one perpendicularly at each side to keep the petticoat from rising or going out of shape. These petticoats reach just across the back only, and are kept in shape by two gored breadths underneath, laced together. To accommo- date them for wear with either long or short dresses, they have a rew of buttons a few inches from the lower edge, on which a stiff pleated flounce, let into a band, with buttonholes, can be attached to support a long train. Long-trained skirts have also flounces put into a fold, and tacked along the lining of the skirt. The Bul- gare" pleat, trimmed down the centre, or at the sides, is still in great favour; it is very elegant when the front of the dress is trimmed with scarves, which are fas- tened under the "Bulgare" at the back; with the lone square tablier it is also not unsuitable. The trained breadths, gathered in several rows, are newer, but do not, admit of the trimming down the centre of the back, which give sucli length to the traiu. The extra length of the dress is still cut to begin a little further back than the side-seams. The cuirasse botiices are now made in so many pieces that the effect of so great a number of seams is far froia pleasing it has iather the appearance of cutting the figure like the quarters of an orange. There is absolutely no novelty sufficiently decided on to inforofc our readers as to the make of bodices, though oon.taat experiments are being made, to be thrown aside as failures, or sold to those who cannot distinguish an attempt from a success. Whatever may be the name of the upper dress worn—tuuique, tablier, over-dress, upper skirt, Jtc. their variety is innumerable. The trimmings in vogue are much the same as those worn last month, very handsome braids, with or with- out metal threads, handsome fringes, elaborate passe- mentarie, Arc. For thick materials, &uch as clotns or Cachemires, flat trimmings are preferred, ruches or bouil- lonnes are reserved for silks. Velvets and velveteens are much used as trimmings also, in bands or bows, as em- ployed for revera collars or cuffs. A black velvet or good black silk-fiuisbed" veheteen overskirt and sleeveless cuirasse is a sine qud non to the wardrobe of every lady who aspires to a certain degree of elegance. It is as valuable as fashionable a toilette, for it can be worn with a variety of skirts and sleeves. Our rraders will remember that we told them twelve months ago of the return to fashion of the large shawl worn the original way. Last winter a few grandes dames alone adop- ted it; this season it will be very generally worn. Of all outdoor garments it is unquestionably the most elegant. The long redingctes and tight-fitting casaques are very generally worn by those wtose figuies ana age permit their wearing fitting confections. For others there are varieties of loose or semi-fitting paletots and mantelets, the former more or less in the Dolman style, the latter long and loose in front, tight and short at the back, The newest casaque for habillees toilettes is the Czartorzyski." It is very close fitting, with a seam down the centre of the back, and side pieces; in front it describes a square tablier, reaching half way down the skirt. At the back it is cut out to form a sort of horse- shoe-shaped space, the upper part reaching to within 15 inches of the waist; the space is occupied by a laige bow and loops. Fur will be much worn as trimmings to co feotions in great variety, both as to kinds and widths. Seal- akin has quite disappeared from the realms of fashion. A few economical ladies who have sealskin eloaks by them wear them as carriage or travelling wiaps, but they are never applied to any other purpose. Bonnets are decidedly smaller and tighter setting to the head, the broad evases brim only serving to catch the wind. The brims are turned up in a variety of ways if in front, the space is covered by a large and full ornament. The Cabriolet" bonnet is decidedly becoming; the open passe admits of very becoming ornamentation. Felt is much worn, but is not just now considered so babille as velvet. Velvet brims and loose silk or satin crowns an Very charming. The birds and wings are getting very common, and are superseded, in the bonnets made by fashionable modistes, by long plumes and curled feathers. As mtny of these can be supplied by one victim, the smaller ornithological species must be very grateful for this new decree of fashion.

PITOBI OUR LOXYJON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, Wednesday EVENING. It ig a relief to find that some hospitality beyond • lunch is being offered to the Queen of Denmark. »he i» now staying at Windsor Castle for a few daYO6 To,-day they are keeping tho 31st birthday tile Princess of Wales, and the Danish Minister Wtoo&.g the guests who have been invited. The Y^^aa and her mother go to Denmark very "hortly, and her Royal Highness will remain there Several weeks. The Queen spends Christmas Osborne, as usual. The Cabinet Councils are over for the present. Mr. Disraeli is gone to stay with the Marquis of Bath at Longleat, and Sir Stafford Northcote is paying visit to Lord Henniker at Thornham Hall. *tis dispersing of Ministers shews that there is no thought of calling Parliament together. Sir. Disraeli would seem to have encountered j?ome difficulty in finding a sent for his new ^licitor. General. Horsham, Shoreham, and *funtiivgdon have all been spoken of but Major ^ldridge is the Conservative candidate for the first, j*1* Cave, though he is going to Egypt, seems to e no intention of vacating the second, and if John Karslake is, as has been generally .^nioured, about to leave the third for a seat in Upper House, Mr. Disraeli is taking his time *bout it. There is a rumour that Lord Sandwich does llotlike to have his borough made again the stepping 'tone for the law officers of the Government. He has three sons, all of them eligible for Parliament, and one of them is the victim of Lord Henry Len- ox's gun. Mr. Holms has determined to agitate the coun- fky. For a long time he ha3 been urging the neces- sity of army reform. He has preached day and night, Jut nobody regarded. Parliament was inte- rested in his seheme, but looked upon it a olever invention not likely to come into opera- Won% The country does not understand it. But Holms thinks he can work upon the popular e<eling by an ingenious use of the fear of compul- ^ory military service. U.Q savs there is a single alternative—his scheme, or compulsion and he «opes to make people believe that. If they do, key will support his scheme—which is that of a ^itizen army. Men are to be trained to war, and ken sent back to their ordinary work until they Wanted, and they are to be well paid for their Services. Mr. Holms's plan is cheap and handy, ^t it is, I»am afraid, not a subject which, in a time Peace, will excite the enthusiasm of the British public. Colonial Institute have come to the con- JUsion that the claim of the French to the ex- P^aiovi of British fishermen from the Newfound- fisheries ia not well founded, and a committee was appointed on the suggestion of the 'h 6 ^ancheiiter t«,-> consider the subject, has bounced the conclusions, in aaven articles, which to be forwarded to the Government. Our churches were not very enthusiastic about r^ions yesterday. Most laymen were suffering much from the weather of Greenland's ieyi fountains to care much about Africa's burning; So the churches were not particularly well *^8d. Dean Stanley, in Westminster Abbey, had only amall congregation, though he was eloquent as over the glories of a comprehensive National J-'hurch. In the evening, Livingstone's father-in- preached in the Abbey, the Dissenting Doctor ^toffat Patriarch," as the Dea.n called him, of South African Missions. Dr. Moffat had to apolo- gise for his hesitancy of speech. He no longer (he 101d his hearers) thought in English. He had learnt Jhe Bechuana tongue so well that lie used it as if [t were his native idiom, and had to translate his Noughts. The Cardinal-Archbishop scores another point. is only a small one, but it adds one to the game. proves in this month's Contemporary that Pope J-Qnocent did not denounce Magna Chart a. What did denounce, it appears, was the wickedness of 'he barons who extorted the Charter from their! lawful sovereign, by force of arms. Practically, off eourse, it is the same thing. John would not have- Slanted Magna Charta had not the St. Simon of political history extorted it by the threat of force But the Cardinal is talking about theories, and ..e proves that Rome in this case did not commitl herself as a matter of pure dry principle, against the rights of the English people. The Cardinal, it is rearked forgets one fact in connection with this memorable affair. He forgets that the Pope ^as paid and paid well, to denounce the barons. It was a matter of pure bribery. But, as people are saying this morning, Archbishop Mannings histories omit the bribery part of the business. Perhaps these omissions explain the extraordinary historical theories which the Cardinal sometimes llt. forward. It ia proposed to commemorate Dean Hook at keedg by extending the work which he began there, a public meeting, in order to promote Uiurcn ^tension in that town, is to be held to-moirow, which the Bishop of Ripon (the Diocesan), the f ishops of Hereford and Ely (formerly Vicars ol the present Vicar, Mr. C. B. Deniso and the Dean of York are to speak. Balliol has not done much in the mathematical lehools. It has no first class man, and only one in the second, and one in the fourth class. Mathematics keera to be more than evor the peculium of Cam- bridge. While the honours list of the mathematical tipoa at Cambridge usually contains about 100 hamea the corresponding list at Oxford just pub- ^hedhas but 13. Cambridge remembers its distinguished alumni. ir R. Bag(lailay, who was J4:,h wrangler was *°mierly one3of the standing counsel to the univer- sity having been raised to the bench, the tftiiver- gtjr has selected Mr. Hemming la bia plj&. Mi". Jemming wa3 senior wrangler in 1344, ^8 First Pith's Prizeman, and a Fellow of St. John s. He *aa called to the bar in 18o0. t George Eliot's new novel, Daniel Deronda," is o be published in eight monthly.parts the first of JStto appear in February. The> title is not an Jnghsh-sounding name, but the story is said to Jeal with English life. The publishers are Messrs. Blackwood. The same publishers announce a sup- plemental series of "'Ancient Classics for English headers." This series will appear, like the ple- ading in quarterly volumes, at lialf-a-crown eaca, in the same size and type. It will not be ex- uded beyond eight or ten such volumes at most. These will include the works of Aristotle, Thucy- ^ides Demo3thenes, Livy, Lucretius, Ovid, Catul- (with Tibullus and Propertius), and some few othQra. -x'^0 first volume will be published in February. Children's stories grow more and more charming every year The rough caricatures which were ^Ued illustrations have passed away, and children feasts for both eyes and ears. e m St0lT bv Ennis Graham (a name new to me), ^ich'has just been published Y.fSrltion^a Julian and Co., is, with Ha or'g aai inustrations, a °8t tempting book for children. er Vw-m+ stories for all tastes. The first one about the Red Fairies, describing the fancies of a solitary Child, is good but is not equal to the pathetic 8tory of the love of two sisters, Meg and \innie, f°r each other. No little girl could read that without tears, which would be chased away only by the fairy tale of Con's adventures with the Pixies. Meg admiration for her sister is a sort of hero-worship. Winnie was to her the model of everything chival- rous and right, and she takes the admonitions of the two years' elder sister as a sure standard which fihe must imitate. One childish quarrel they had, Which only united them more firmly afterwards. ■The peace was sealed by a promise that they would |*ever lie down to sleep without a good-niglit *is8 of love. The story tells us why this solemn Remise could not always be kept, and for that my childish readers must turn to the book itself. They 80uld hardly have a better Christmas book- The new number of Blackwood's Magazine, con tains a very interesting article on a usually dry subject—statistics. The writer, who has « very pointed pen, caricatures the rage for statistics, and the eagerness with which rival" statisticia,ns (query Should not the word bo statists ?) draw contrary conclu- sions from the same figures. The Scot at Home is the title of an article about golf in the old days, which will be read with interest from North Devon to Aberdeen. Notes from the Crimea" describes a recent tour in that country. The Indian Mutiny &tory, The Di- lemma," understood to be by Colonel Hamley, n continued, and anew tale, Left-handed Elsa," is begun. Elizabeth is a slight hub rather pretty poem anent the siege of Paris, written in hexameters. It is an evil thing for the poor that winter has come so early. To them the snow on the ground this morning means privation, if not starvation and already steps are being taken in nearly every Metropolitan parish to meet the want which always springs up with a frost. The Bishop of Winchester appeals personally for the poor .Southwark and at many churches next Sunday special collections will be made for the poor. By what rule shall we compare things ? By what rule shall we compare songs ? Here is Gounod, an undoubtedly great composer, and Virginia Gabriel, a second-rate writer of fleeting drawing-room melo- dies. Which would you say would get the more money for a composition l Most people would say Gounod, but most people would be wrong. Vir- ginia Gabriel's Only" has been disposed of at a copyright auction. It fetched £ 516. At the same sale Gounod's Biondina." was put up. It fetched £ 96. The highest price of the ttay was paid for a little thing" by Levey, the song "Esmeralda," which he wrote for Miss Furtado to sing when she ap- peared at the Adelphi Theatre in an adaptation of Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame." This copyright was sold for £MG. For Pinsuti'a "I Love my Love £ 454 was paid.

SPIRIT u* ;ijA.lLK i-liESS. DP-. MOFFAT AT WEOLHLNSIEE ABII-Y. If the Dean of Westminster stretched rwnfc, cis he pro- bably did, in inviting Dr. Moffat, to «. U. a lecture in Westminster Abbey oil the Day of Tces&ion for Missions, there are few %i ii,?, in this }>:ir. ical;ir instance, the Times thinks, will re^rofc his enterpiising liberality. There is, indeed, an iuclcfinifceDess in Dr. Stanley's catholicity which might lesd to some inconvenient con sequences in the management of the Abbey if it were exercised with less tact a.nd good feeling than lie possesses. But the public would be sorry to interfere with his dis- cretion. It is not every dean who could be thus indulged, and it is Dr. Stanley, not the Dean of Westminster, who must bo regarded as responsible for these interesii Mi- novations. There is, however, no true Christian, nov uvsn any true friend to the sanse of civilisation, whether » member of the Church of England or not, who will not re- joice that by any means, regular or irregular, Dr. Iuo(f;if,. the true patriarch of South African Missions, should have enjoyed an opportunity of speaking on behalf of the cause to which lie has devoted his life in a church, and on an occasion, worthy of his services. If at this moment* the Church of England is duly interested in the evange- lisation of South Africa and if she is really sinking lies roots in its soil, she owes, iilMso main, both the impulsi and the opportunity to Dr. Mofiafc alld his fellow labourers. It will certainly be one of tlio most memorable incidents to be recounted by some future Dean Stanley, when sup plementidg the already recordell history of Westminster Abbey, that Dr. Moffat, speaking near the grave of Dr. Livingstone, should have described within its walls the principles on which he and his illustrious follower laid the tirst real foundations of South A rriean Christianity. DON CARLOS AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, Noting that the late Duke of Modena. has left his vast estates in Bohemia to Don Carlos and his brother, the question is, says the Bady Telegraph, what will they do with this property, an appanage worthy of a prince ? Will its rents be drained off even more largely than before to feed the civil war and cause the utmost possible amount of additional misery in a country which has already suffered so severely; or will the sudden acquisition of so nuieb wealth seduce the impetuous and unreasonable brotlvns from an enterprise which they must now perceive to be hopeless, to pass the remainder of their lives in the easy enjoyment of almost unbounded luxury, and of a state only less than regal ? Humanity will hope that the second will be the course chosen, and will desire that General Quesada's forward movement may be strong and prompt enough to add smother argument to those which the Duke of Modena's bequest supplies in favour of a retreat ere it be too late. To all human appearance the fate of Don Carlos, if he elects to stand and fight it out, will be death in his last ditch, or an ignominious flight into Francs. But before the last ditch is dug many agaUantmountaineer among those who have clung to him with an almost canine fidelity will have found a grave on the bleak hillsides of Navarre, riddled by Spanish bullets, or will have sunk down, benumbed and stiff, on the painful midnight march, famished and frozen, a victim to elements scarcely more pitiless than his countrymen. To what end all this suffer ing ? Dan Carlos has fought enough for glory-let him now sacrifice something to humanity, and henceforth try ne practice a-ainst no worse enemies than pheasants and wlld boars. MR. KAWCETT AND Mil. liOLMS AT HACKNEY. selves0t^The f,Cont0wa8CJ'°ewntiCul T"' ^Tv hr>Hi ci the IMjily JVaws ♦•Junks, «>y K Jwl" IXX'Js.r tablishment to take warning from tl 'r ?'Jvr°ca^es not force the question on too fait 1?'? ^Ulc'T T Mr. Fawcett, however, placed P measures to which the Liberal partem I ranlc of unanimously pledged the bill of which Mr gan has had the charge, for allowing rural D „ ? fcl buried in the parish churchyards with fl ? t0 b The subject has made much noise durhit tlTt nteS" but the discussions on it 5 conferences have justified Mr. Fawcett in suying 11,^°'"in every diocese the spirit o unreasonable and imreasoni,^ delusiveness is rampant, o„ unreasoning is the same agreement. Mr. Svwc?tt and$7' Lord Hartinfiton and Mr. Dixon, are at on* in !'r the head of the objects which tlse LisM rais in f c Parliament must pursue, the establishment t "U °[ system of sccular educate. Another 'oh t"mversal tion of the ruial suffrage. Household S^e fn^the counties has, perhaps, been too much rc'Sded as vZ enfranchisement of agncuitural libos>rftr. v! ? Fawcett recalls to recollection the faCT tl-lT than half the persons whom n\lu ? f'f ,re dwell in towns and m fh, suburb, of town* c"j,*nchls« nient for this eqiuilisat >u of the suffrage *i<. ir. flf"' and this complelion of household sntfraTm i ,rlesistl^le » question of time. Some oU^ Sff.r* n°,W T\VT a Fawcett spoke are subsidiary to this diHi^ u w f}1 Mr- tlfe redistribution of the representatioi^ t fmak' lodger frar.cliue a reality, to estahliwh make tae of self acting registration as Sir Charles^Dm l' Sysfcum eested, and to diminish the expenses of pIo r S SUn ^atte» on which the Liberal party i, It v S°n"»' aP6 R 1 and on which Mr. Fawcett has no diSculttt, '•"g« it^has much work before it power. IRONCLAD SHIPS AND MODERN SEAMANSHIP. There ought, the Standard remarks, to be no excuse carelessness or incapacity. But it may be that all Parts of the great n.achinery of the navy have not been eoualW modified so as to be in harmony wi.li each other W» talk of seamansuip in tins rlay. But soamanshin* i« •>« altered thing from what it was, and an officer on board 11 ironclad has need to be: partly an engineer as well ai a sailor. It may be doubted whether the practice of T>er petually changing the crew of a ship is not pH.cu- liarly perilous now that our vessels are so varied in their character and so elaborate in their construe tion. Men and officers on board an ironclad cannot be too well accluaiiltcd with the structure of tile machine committed to their cure. The greatest naval calamity io recent years--tiie loss of the Captain would most likely not have ■ -"rred bad the commander of that ship been duly infornieu as iu her angle of stability. Tne mechanical properties of the Captain were not known until certain problems had been worked out on shore, and the information was not forthcoming until too late. The disaster served to throw discredit on a style of naval archi- tecture which simply failed because those who had to deal with it were not promptly and perfectly instructed. In regard to her navy, England ia making rapid progress, and the very accidents or seeming blunders that mark her course are possibly part of thst experience which awaits all who seek to take the lead in paths that are little known. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHIELD. The mistakes made by the Admiralty have, the Hoif notes, been sufficiently ciied up; let us, i(! adds, look a little at the successes attained, at the abuses which have been swept away, at the amount of good work done. The competitive examination for the entrance of naval cadets, with its accompanying hot-bed forcing of the young intel- lect, physical injury, and moral harm, haa been boldly ^et aside. The unjust promotion of young flag lieutenants, to the detriment and heart burning of the seniors, has been abolished. A valuable codicil has just been ap- pended to tlw Childers schcme, which ensures the! annual promotion of s-, veil captains to flag t.ttilc, oE I twelve to fifteen coir.niaiii.ierj to the Captains' List, lld of twenty to tweuty-fiv* lieutenants to com- m&ndar'a rank annually i, andJUQ aboard ia.at. this mnmeui engaged in the elaboration of a pTau to improve the con- dition of one of the most important and neglected classes in the service—that of the naval engiueers. As to the amount of good work done, attention should surely bA called to the improvements now being made in gunnery and torpedo science to the perfection with which the per- petual transit of our troops between England and India. is carried oil to the services rendered by the navy in the late Ashantee war to the lately performed survey of a portion of the New Guinea coast to the despatch of an expedition, found and equipped in a manner calculated to do honour to any nation by its completeness, to unveil the mystery of the North Pole. WmIEN AXD THE EDUCATION QUESTION. There is ample room, the Morning Pest observes, for the improvement of female education. What is necessary is that it shall be of a sound and practical character. Without discussing the question whotlier women in those fields of education which are open to both sexes can com- pete on equal terms with men. there is no doubt that their intellectual powers may be trained and disciplined, as they have not hitherto been, for their own advantage and for the general benetit. They have had to suiter untold miseries in the innumerable instances in which, through the death of the bread-winner of their families*, they have had to sink into the position of poor relations or to rely for their support on some wretcnedly paid toil. In such cases it is to be feared girls will always be in a less favourable position than their brothers, liut much may be done to diminish the misfortune of their case by fittiiig them to undertake work for nhich they aro not at present qualified. But putting aside this extreme argument for the better instruc- tion of girls, it is essential on another ground. A well. educated woman must be a better companion for her husband, and a wiser mother to her children, than a woman whose mind has not been cultivated. In propor- tion as she possesses that advantage her home influence will be increased. It is from this point of view that we regard the efforts that are now being made with so much zeal, and thus far with so much success, as a matter of the highest importance. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. The insurrection in Khokand must, the Morning Adver- tiser considers, be very considerable, since it appears from some of the reports that the Russian army, ten thousand strong, is in imminent peri!, and that the detached and isolated garrisons are being cut off and destroyed. There can be no doubt that every possible source of hatred, every conceivable element of hostility, exists throughout Central Asia against Russia fiom Kbiva. to Ivhekand, and that any strong Mussulman Tower ob!e to cope with Russia might, with a little ninnagement, bring about a uliversal risirg. The inhabitants of Central A Sla abhor and detest the Russians as cruel invaders and tyrants, as infidels in religion, and aliens in language and race. Nor is it the population of Turkestan alone who would join in such a crusade. The Persians, the Atfghan's, the Turks, might take part in it. If Kashgar were enlarged by the accession of those regions still un- conquered by Russia, and extending to China, such a State, welded together by the sentiment of a fierce reli- gious fanaticism, and the interest of a common danger hgainst a common enemy, would, while almost inaccessible to Russia by its distance, be powerful enough to rally in a great crusade all the Moslem populations from the Aral to Khiva and Persia and from Affghanistau to Stamboul. The enemies of the Czar might succumb in the end, if England remained passive but the march of Russia pon India would be stopped for a generation.

THE DEATH OF SHELLEY. Mr. W. M. Rossetti sends to the Times the following extract of a letter addressed to Mr. Trelawny (the intimate frierdof the poet), by his daughter,-which gives some pain- ful details as to the manner in which Shelley met his death —"Rome, Nov. 2 1875.—My dear Father,—I have just heard something that will interest, you. A little while ago there died at Spezzia an old sailor, who, in his last confession to the priest (whom he told to make it public). Stated that he was one of the erew that ran down the boat cuntailliug Shdley and Williams, which was done under the impression that the rich milord Byron was on board with lots of money. They did not intend to sink the boat, but to board her and murder Byron. She sank, he said, as soon as she was struck. This account was sent to my friends, the K--s, by a person they are intimate with, and who lives at Spezzia, and, I believe, knows the priest.

THE WHITECHAPEL MURDER. TRIAL OF THE WAINWRIGHTS. SUMMING UP OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Tbe trial of the Wainwrights for the murder and com- plicity in the murder of Harriet Lane was resumed yesterday, at the Old Bailey, before Lord Chief Justice Oockburn; The court was again crowded to overflowing. Persons with tickets had been patiently waiting in the precincts of the court from a very early hour of the morning. Out- side the court, also, there was considerable excitement. The Lord Chief Justice took his seat on the bench at ten o'clock, and proceeded with his summing up of the evidence. His lordship said he was quite sure that there was no need on his part to ask the earnest attention of the jury to the remarks which he was about to offer. Indeed, they had shewn throughout the case an evident desire to arrive at a just and correct conclusion. Starting with certain facts, he would observe that it had been shewn by the evidence of the prosecution that on the 10th of Septem ber the prisoner Henry Wainwright was found in the pos session of the remains of the body of a woman, and it was found that those remains had been severed by some in strument in an unscientific way. It was shewn that cer- tain remains had been taken from the grave found at 215, Whitechapel-road, a place occupied by the prisoner Henry Wain wright. It was also shewn that he was on terms of intimacy with Harriet Louisa Lane, and it was their duty to inquire whether the life of the woman whose remains were found in his possession was taken by the prisoner Henry. In every case of murder there were some difficulties; in fact, this was always the case when sircmnstautial evidence was necessary to a conviction. In this case there could be no doubt that the life of the woman whose remains were found in the possession of Henry Wainwright had met her death by violence, and there was the additional fact that the prisoner (Henry) was taken with the remains of a human body in his possession. Incidental to those general cir- cumstances, there were subordinate points which they would have to consider. It had been urged on the part. of the defence that the identity of the remains had not, been proved to their satisfaction, but he (the learned judge) felt bound to tell them that the conduct of a prisoner whose life was involved was a very important matter for thdr consideration; and he might add that the life of the veriest stranger or out.cast was as much entitled to their consideration as the life of the highest person in the land. In such a case as that at present presented to them the prisoner Henry was taken with the proof of death in his band, an J it only remained to preve what could be the motive as far as the prisoner Henry was concerned, for the commission of tiie crime imputed to him, because a motive, however inadequate, should operate on their minds in enabling them to come to a just and proper decision. It was, therefore, for them to consider two points—the one was the matters of fact which had been adduced, and tIle other was a question of history as affecting the whole of the details. The evidence with regard to the missing woman would require their special consideration. Articles of dress were found in the gr;ive in which the body had lain, and those articles were identified as corresponding with the articles found amongst the goods belonging to Harriet Lane, left with Mrs. Foster. His lordship then proceeded to deal with the various details of the caso as affecting both prisoners. He taid it had been shewn that Henry Wainwright for a consider- able period never went near the woman under his protec- tion, but it would be for the consideration of the jury to say what importance might be attached to that part of the evidence. Having paid a compliment to the temperate manner in which the Attorney-General and the counsel for the defence had put their cases before the court, he pro- ceeded to draw the atteution of the jury to the evidence. He first referred to the circumstances mentioned by Mrs. Rogers, as to her having seen Hat-riet Lane in a state of insensibility in the passage at No. 84, and to her bringing vinegar to Wain wright,who said he oouldmanage her now. This, his lordship considered, proved without doubt the intimacy between the prisoner Henry and Mrs. King, and the jury would have to recollect that Mrs. liogers heard the words, "Oh, don't, don't." The next point for their consideration was that with regard to the weeding ring. Now, a wedding ring was that with which a woman was the least ready to part, and the fact of her having sent it to pledge was a proof that at the time she was much pressed for money. But returning to tho evidence of Rogers, on which the counsel for the defence strongly animadverted, he could not see that be came there with a motive in favour of one prisoner or the other, and he (his lordship) could not for a moment see that he could have any motive in gi%'ilig untrue evidence in a case involving such a hor- rible crime. The question of motive, however, was en- tirely a question for the jury. While dealing with the -"We of Mrs. Bogers, be thought it his duty to refer wthe fact she mentioned, that during her residence at 215, Wnitechapel-road, certain stinks were perceptible. Referring to the Frieake incident, his lordship said rv,ere was some reason to believe that the person called id ward Frieake had been introduced to Mrs. King at an earlier period than was deposed to in the evidence, because it had been found that some one visited under that name in 1873, and that he went with Henry Wainwright, as it was given in evidence that after Henry had gone upstairs he called out, Edward, come up, I want you." This was probably for the purpose of being introduced to Mrs. King. His lordship then proceeded to allude to that part of the indictment which the prosecution alleged jus- tified them in saying that when Mrs. King left Mrs. Foster's she went to 215, Whitechapel-road, and was mur- f''lere, and cunouslj enough, oil the 11th September, 18/5, the prisoner Henry was found in possession of the rem,ins of a murdered woman. The prosecution had charged Thomas Wainwright with being accessory before the fact, and they made that the basis and great part of their case. It was alleged that Henry Wainwright had become weary and tired of the woman who had given up to him all that which a respectable woman could give, and be was bound to say there wis nothing to prove that Harriet King was otherwise; and that the prisoner Thomas had written the letters which bad been produced, with the object of diverting inquiry and with a full knowledge ot her death and it was further suggested that to accom- plish their purpose and carry out the plan of murdering Harriet Lane, Thomas had given up to his brother Henry the premises alluded to as the Hen and Chickens. His lordship then referred to what he said the learned coun- sel for the defence of Henry had not inaptly termed the Frieake incident. It was quite clear that some scheme wag abroad for the purposes of an arrangement between Harriet King and Henry Wainwright, and it was sug- aiostt'd that hence arose the writing of the letter stating that Edward would call on Mrs. King that night. This, the prosecution alleged, was the beginning of the plan to eomi- mifc the murder, and shewed Thomas Wainwright's com- plicity in it and it would be for the jury to grive their eainest attention to this question in the case. His lord- ship then referred to the question of the remains, and alluded to the startling fact that the day on which they were found in the possession of Henry Wainwright was the day twelvemonth of that on which, it was alleged, the murder was committed. The prisoner was found removing the remains of a body which it was alleged had been de- posited in a grave on the premises occupied by him, at 215, Wiiitectiapel-rottd. Now, it wall alleged that the body so removed was the body of the missing Harneti Lane, and it was asserted that the body thus found was t!, at of a person who had met her death by violence; and to the evidence on this part of the case he should shortly oi!l their attention, but before he did that, as the question Wt8 not quite ripe for their consideration, he would calli their attention to the acts of the prisoner Henry Wain- wright from the time he was first spoken'to, to the time he was found transferring the remains from 215, Whitechapel- road, to the Hen and Chickens. It had been shewn that Harriet Lane left Miss Willmore under the impression that she would come back again, but as she did not do so on the Saturday (after the Friday on which she left) Miss Willmore went to Henry Wainwright, and this led up to the other evidence with regard to the visits of that witness, and Eeles, and the relatives of the deceased In reference to the letter received by Miss Willmore from Henry AV^inwiigbt,expre3siiig suiprise about not receiving a reply, his lordship observed that lie could see no motive from a reasonable point of view which would account for so transparent a lie, and the jury would have to judge of the honesty and trustworthiness of that letter. There could be no doubt that the Charing-cross letter was a very important thing as affecting the disappearance of Harriet Lane, and he desired the iury to give every confederation to counsel's suggestion that it was quite pj. -ible that a person might be in Australia or any other remote portion of the globe, and have no opportunity of knowing that such a case was proceeding. But lie (his lordship) felt it his duty to remind them that when Mrs. King went away she shewed that she had the affection of a mother, and that there was no probability that ahe would have gone away for any length of time before she communicated with those who had the charge of the children. It would he a matter for their consideration—why did she cut off all connection with those to whom she was attached by blood and feeling ? They would consider this part of the evidence in connectiou with the fact that Harriet Lane had stated to Miss Willmore that she was going to reside with Henry Wainwright, and that she was never seen afterwards. xiia lordship, recurring to the evidence with regard to the letter written in the name of Frieake, said it was not of any importance whether one. two, or three persons were engaged in its con- ooction there could be no doubt that the whole contents were false. It would be a question for them wLwthet there was another person of the name of Frieake. His lordship, again adverting to the observations of the coun- sel for the defence, to the effect that a person might be in Australia and have no notion of the proceed- ings going on in that court, reminded the jury that what they would have to bear in mind was the question—Had a prima facie case been made out to prove any connection between Thomas Wainwright and Edward Frieake. He niuut ask the jury themselves whether they believed the name of "BYinnlfrpmn t-Vfl "BYinnlrfpmn t-Vfl of hit; inLmacy-with TMr. Frieake in a business point ot view, for that was a question entirely within their limits. Referring again to the matter of the removal of the body, his lordship said that had it not been discovered in the manner it had, further identification would have been rendered impossible from decomposition, and in reference to this part of the case there were some important circumstances to which he must call their attention. Evidence had been called to shew the em- barrassed state of Htpry Wainwright's affairs, and about this there could be no duuht, inasmuch as the mort- gage and the bankruptcy had been spokeu to. Those cii-eii mstances were awkward indeed for the prisoner Henry, as they shewed that certain proceedings were about to be taken, and that persons would, in the usual course of events, enter into possession. It was sug- gested that this was the reason which in- duced the prisoner to take that step in the horrible tragedy which was said to have taken place on the 11th September, 1874. That the woman found in the grave had met her death by violence there could be no doubt, aud now it should be borne in mind that Henry Wainwrigh had been in possession of the Hen and Chickens, and it was suggested that this was in Henry's mind when he decided to cut up the body. If it could be shewn that Thomas Wainwright gave up possession to Henry WaiBwright of those premises, then there could be no room for doubt as to that prisoner being privy to the concealment. Then again with regard to the prisoner Thomas, it was sug- gested hvthe prosecution that the purchase of the chotmerand the spade was a proof of complicity,and the jury would have to say whether he entered into the case with the intention of being an accomplice. His lordship then recurred to the circumstances attending the case of Henry Wainwiiaht, observing that on the 10th of September he had a conversation with a young man named Stokes, who had worked for him while he was in business. Stokes deposed to carrying the parcels, and that they emitted very unpleasant smells. And here it might be mentioned that those smells were Dot so perceptible as they would have been lId they been exposed to the air. His Lordship then de- filed the circumstances narrated by Stokes as to his look. lng into the pnrcels and following the cab until the prisoner Henry was given into I custody and observed that what was somewhat remark- able was that he did not go in the straight direction to the Borough, where he subsequently arrived withAliceDay. They could form their own opinion whether or not the prisoner Henry met Alice Day by appointment but either way it did not affect the case. It was sufficient to know that the parcels did contain the remains of a human body, and they could hardly fail to come to the conclusion that a foul murder had been committed. This occurred to the witness Stokes, who ran after the cab, determined that the matter should not sleep. It was for them to say whether they entertained any reasonable doubt that the body fonnd in the possession of the pris- oner Henry had been disinterred from the grave at No. 215 by the prisoner, and that the prisoner had chopped up that body-and he (the Lord Chief Justice) was bound to sav that there was evidence ot tne cnoppmg-up, in the description of Inspector Fox with regard to the indentations on the stones in the kitchen. His Lordship said he would now enter into another part of the case. They had seen that the remains of the body had been taken, in all human probability, from the grave in No. 215, and if this was the case, could they entertain a doubt that the woman who had been deprived of life re- ceived her death blow in that house? If that grave was made for the purpose of concealing the body of Harriet Lane, what would be the natural inference? Would they not, in common sense and reason, say that it was the body of a woman who had been murdered ? Why should a man conceal a murdered body if he was not guilty of the act of murierinz it ? Although he (the Lord Chief Justice) had listened with pain to the address of the learned counsel for the prisoner Henry (and he said this without the slightest disparagement of the counsel's ability), he still felt it his duty to state that he should draw the attention of the jury to the impossibility of the woman, whose remains had been found-if she had com- mitted suicide—havina: buried herself. His Lordship then proceeded to allude to the evidence with regard to the teeth, the height of her body, and the buttons, dwelling particularly on the fact that the two found in the box belonging to the deceased were identical in form with those taken from the grave, and which Miss Willmore proved seeing the deceased sew on her jacket. His Lordship said he had called their attention to what he would term a direct evidence in the case, and proceeded to point out what he considered the salient points generally. He said one fact of importance was that Harriet Lane had never been heard of since her departure cn the morning when she left Mrs Foster's house. She was very fond of her children, and unless she was away, as suggested by the learned counsel for the defence, in some parts of the world where no intelligence of the present trial could reach her, no one could suppose her to be guilty of ouch inhuman conduct as to keep away and hold her tongue. She was supposed to have gone away with Mr Frieake, and that the letter written in that name showed to the contrary. But the prisoner only could tell them that, and it devolved on him or his counsel to do so, as well as to say, if it was not the body of Harriet Lane that was found in his possession, whose body it was. After some further remarks affecting this part of the case, his Lordship pro- ceeded to touch on that which affected Thomas Wain- wright, dwelling on the circumstances of his having admittedly written the Charing-cross letter, and leaving them to say whether that act, < and his purchase of the chopper and spade, was done without a guilty knowledge. The Lord Chief Justice then said it was for them to take the whole case into their consideration, and to say whether they believed Henry Wainwright to be guilty of the murder. As rational, thinking men, irrespective of their private feelings in the matter, they would come to an honest and just conclusion on the case, and of that he felt certain from the evident attention which they had paid throughout. The Lord Chief Justice commenced his summing up soon after ten o'clock a. m., and concluded about a quarter to four, when the jury rstired. Up to this period the greatest excitement prevailed both in and out of the Court, the approaches to which were crowded to an extent which rendered the Old Bailey impassable. After the absence of an hour the jury returned into Court, and the prisoners were placed in the dock, having the same calm demeanour that they had evinced throughout the trial. The jury having been asked the usual question, said that they found Henry Wainwright guilty of the murder of Harriet Lane, and 'Ihomas Wainwright accessory after the fact. lklr Wilsoii, the chief usher, then called "Silence," and the prisoner Henry was asked by the Clerk whether he had anything to say -by sentence of death should not be passed upon him ? Henry Wainwright said he wished to make one or two obs, rvations, and they would be very short. He wished to thank his counsel for the untiring energy which they had evinced on his behalf, and for the ability with which his defence had been conducted, as well as the many friends who had supported him in that anxious trial. His Lordship said he really could not allow the prisoner to make a speech. He must confine himself to the ques- tion whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him. The Prisoner said Standing now on the brink of eternity, and in the presence of that God before whom I shill soon have to anpear for judgment, I will swear that I was not the murderer of the woman whose remains were found in my possession; and that body, I will swear, was never buried by me. The Lord Chief Justice, having put on the black cap, said the prisoner had beeu found guilty, in his opinion, on the most complete evidence, of the murder of Harriet Lane, and no one who had heard this trial could enteitain the slightest shadow of a doubt as to the correctness of the verdict. Standing as the prisoner said he was, on the brink of eternity, he (the Judge) was sorry that the prisoner had called God to witness such a rash asser- tion as the one which he had made. There could be no doubt that he took the life of this poor woman, with whom he had been in the closest intimacy, and who was the mother -of his children, and that the remains found in bis possession were the result of a cruel, inhuman, and cowardly act. His Lordship, after stating that he did not wish to aggravate the prisoner s feelings by any words of his, sentenced him to death in the usual form, 13 and he was then l emoved from the dock. III sentencing Thomas, the Judge said that he (the prisoner) had sinned from fraternal feeling, but that musl not affect the eyes of justice. He ordered him to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. His Lordship directed that a gratuity of £ o0 should be awarded to the witness Stokes, through whose instru- mentality the murder was discovered.

THE WEATHER.—Wednesday.—During the past 24 hours the barometer has fallen bnsldy over Norway, IIud to a less extent at the Scotch stations, i% in France and the southern pnrts of England It slight recovery has let in. A .¡,ud of higil readings how stretches over Scotland and across tho North to the Skuger Hack, to the "northward of which slight gradients !or westerly winds are reported, while to the south- ward the gradients. for eaftetly winds still hold. Tem- perature h*,s changed irregularly. In Scotland it has fallen, in north.of.England it has risen, while in Hol- tand it has fallen. The wenther is very sold in North Ger- many and the north east, of France, the thermometer being Is low as 22 degs. Fahrenheit at. the Ilelder and Cuxhaven, >r lo degrees lower thg.ii at Shields. The wind has become ftiore easterly ia Ireland A-,d England than it was yester- lay, and has freshened at the western stations, but iaode- tated at Shields. At Yarmouth and the Helder, however, t north-easterly gate is still blowing. At Cliristisnsund ind in the extreme north of Scotland south-westerly airs *re reported. The westher is still very Jull and cold. Showers of snow and hail have failen in the east, and a small quantity ef sno-.v is reported from the south of Ire- land. The sea remains rough on our east coast, but has gone down'at Aberdeen, and is moderate at most of the wester* stations. Warnings have been repeated to our east coast mominy. but have bean lowered ia Scot- Jbuad. >-

The new Poultry Maiket, London, has been qpened by the Lord Mayor. The building, which is 264 feet long an« 248 feet wide, is situated on the wbst side of the Smith- field Meat Market, find has cost nearly a quarter of a mil- lion. It is divided into eighty shops, which will yield, it is expected, a revenue of 225,000. Notice is given in the London GaaetU that after the expiration of six days the Speaker will issue his writ for the election of a member for Whitehaven, in the room of Mr. Cavendish Bentixck, who has accepted the office of her Majesty's Judge Advocate-General. Mr. H. R. Spark is the Liberal candidate. Earl Cowper, who inherits extensive estates in and around the town of Melbourne, Derbyshire, from the late Lady Palinerston, has given instructions to his agent to announce that, taking into consideration the extremely wet and unfavourable season, a return t f 10 per cent. ill be made upon their respective rents for the current rear. The funeral has tak. n place of Mr. William Seymour, of Camborne, who had pa,.ie 1. through a long militaiy career. He had been one of the volunteer contingent at San Sebas- an and, more than sixty years since, he served in the Cornish Yeomanry and Sea Fencibies. When foe modern volunteer movement was started, he was one of the first to offer his services. A melancholy evert in connection with She death is that ten minutes after the funeral loft the bouse, his wife-died of heart disease. A New York i. i, :-A conviction seems to be growing up "among Republicans that, after all, General Grant is their strongest candidate for 1876. The President, it is acknowledged, hus never absolutely de- clined a third term. and is known, indeed, to be working and scheming to secure his renominaiion, on this ticket:- 1. Hard Money. 2. No Popery in the Common Schools, 3. War with Spaiu. Lt'aviug the last as out of the ques- tion, it is undoubtedly tiue that the other two would be popular cries. At a Home Rule meeting at Dublin, Mr. Butt, M.P., referring te the statement of Sir Michael Hicks Beach about spouters of sedition, said he supposed he was one of those whom Sir Michael meant. In old days they would have taken a course which was not strange in Ireland, but that age of chivalry was gone and, if Sir Michael chose to call men spouters of sedition, it was simply a matter of taste. He (Mr. Butt) would, however, dare him to repeat that language in the House of Commons, or in any othet assembly of gentlemen. Having obtaitie(I.el is. as a subscription to the Anti- Adulteration Society," a man named Henry Cohen has been charged at the Mansion House, London, with obtain- ing the money under false pretences. No balance-sheet of the donations to the society has been published since March, 1874, and in the course of the examination, Sir Robert Caiden remaiked that if the subscribers of the association were satisfied, he was not. He remanded the case until Saturday uext, expressing a wish to see not only a balance-sheet, but some of the directors. Preaching in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday evening, Dr. Moffat gave an interesting account of his labours amosg the Bechusnas in Southern Africa, and in conclusion said V —Let us be thankful for what God has done anl let us not forget our near proximity to the remains of one great missionary, a fact which is to me deeply impressive on the present occasion. With that dear man. Livingstone, I have travelled, I have laboured, I have slept in the wiM desert, and it is a consolation that is indescribable, ts know that his labours are not in vaiu. They cannot be in vain, for Christianity will be extended and the world benefited. My heart leaps to God in thanksgiving for what is now being done in Atrica. The following is All extract from a circular just issued te the Swedish and Norwegian Consuls in Britain :-By a Royal resolution dated the Gt-li November it has bows ordered that whenever a British vessel is purchased for Norwegian account in IWY port of the Lnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, tlie Consulate shall not delivez to the master any certificate of nationality until a report of the purchase has been made to the Board of Trade, or to the officers appointed by the Board under the existing regulations for the inspection of vessels, and after it has been satisfactorily proved that there exists no objeetiosoa the ground of unseaworthiness to the departure of the vessel from a British port. Tlie attention of sHjUBi eurahuurs is to ba called, to thiareeulttietfe.'